This adorable snoring critter is a dormouse, a European rodent known for their long periods of hibernation. You might need to turn the volume up on this one, this tiny guy isn’t very loud.
This adorable snoring critter is a dormouse, a European rodent known for their long periods of hibernation. You might need to turn the volume up on this one, this tiny guy isn’t very loud.
You can burn more calories, and lose more weight, just by tweaking your habits. Here are 11 tricks to rev up your metabolism and maximize your weight-loss progress.
Though a 101-year-old evicted Detroit woman has been taken in by a good Samaritan, she still needs more help to get by. After the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development deemed Texana Hollis’ foreclosed home too unsafe for her to live there, a church member, Pollian Cheeks, invited the Detroit native to stay with her. While Hollis now has a roof over her head, she still needs to replace her belongings that were trashed when she was evicted and to make the home where she’s staying wheelchair accessible.
“I don’t know what happened,” Hollis told UPI.com. “Lord knows, I don’t know what happened.”
But some donations have already started pouring in.
I’m still appalled that we can let people be kicked out on the streets in a country as wealthy as ours.
On January 14, we adopted a new dog. He was found tied to a tree a week earlier and brought to the veterinary clinic where my husband works. There he waited for his family to retrieve him. No one came, which meant, at week’s end, he needed a new home. About a year old, dirty, thin and matted, Henry Hershel (as we’re calling him) joined our crew of two dogs and a cat. He wasted no time in endearing himself to us and seemed very happy to join our family. Because I work at home, I’m with the animals most of the time. Henry Hershel is now always by my side, curled in a ball by my feet at my desk when I work, hovering by me when I make dinner and under the table when we eat.
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Its amazing to me that there are people who believe that animals dont feel. Henry Hershel shows every sign of feeling as deeply, if not more deeply, than humans.
Interesting article.
Homer, famous author of the Odyessy, called pears “gift of the gods.” That was in 800 B.C. Thousands of years before and thousands of years later, there are many (including me) who would agree.
Did you know?
Pears were cultivated in 5000 B.C. in China by Feng Li, a Chinese diplomat as a commercial venture.
The Chinese believed that the pear was a symbol of immortality. (Pear trees live for a long time.)
In Greek and Roman mythology, pears are sacred to three goddesses.
Pears are members of the rose family.
There are more than 5,000 varieties of pears! (When I was at the farmer’s market a guy showed me 5 varieties last week; I was impressed.)
Pear trees can produce fruit for up to 100 years.
Pears were cultivated to become the sweet juicy taste we know today.
Pears are Powerfoods.
Pears:
have more nutrients per calorie than calories per nutrient (surprising since they are so sweet). They are what I call a Smart Carb.
are a good source of dietary fiber, vitamin C, copper & vitamin K.
are often considered a hypoallergenic fruit that is less likely to produce an adverse response than other fruits by healthcare practitioners.
are often the first fruit fed to infants as a safe way to start.
Biomimicry — an innovative trend that looks at animals and insects to inspire new and highly efficient technology– is becoming popular among manufacturing firms and researchers in Japan.
Thomas Ramey Watson is an affiliate faculty member of Regis University's College of Professional Studies. He has served as an Episcopal chaplain (lay), trained as a psychotherapist, done postdoctoral work at Cambridge University, and was named a Research Fellow at Yale University.
In addition to his scholarly writings, he is a published author of poetry and fiction.